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Crowdfunder: Creating a Leadership Academy for underserved high school students

Aug 12, 2015, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Leadership Academy for Underserved High Schools The co-founders of Forward Thinking Leadership Academy (FTLA), had each looked back on their own personal struggles with school, poverty, missed chances, and unavailable opportunities due to their family’s socioeconomic…

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Crowdfunder: Publishing bedtime stories written by deported parents for their children left behind

Aug 11, 2015, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: BEDTIME STORIES – CUENTOS by deported parents Sophia is an educator, artist and activist in San Diego, CA dedicated to using the arts for both social change and healing. For the past six months she has…

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Crowdfunder: Spreading the message of #ILookLikeAnEngineer via billboards

Aug 10, 2015, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Let’s Put Up An #ILookLikeAnEngineer Billboard After her company (OneLogin) put up an ad in San Francisco featuring an image of her, engineer Isis Wenger saw a lot of reactions. She wrote about these reactions in…

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Crowdfunder: Changing the lives of 1,000,000 kids with fresh food and eco-literacy

Aug 6, 2015, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: #GrowFruitGrowPower – Common Vision Formed in 2005, Common Vision is a non-profit that delivers inspirational environmental education. Over the past 10 years they’ve planted more than 6,000 fruit trees throughout California and built a reputation for…

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Crowdfunder: Creating safe environment for children of Peruvian village damaged by floods

Aug 5, 2015, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Project Taray Sonco Wasi, the non-profit parent organization to Project Taray, was founded in 2010 to support the children of Taray after a disastrous flood seriously damaged the village. They provide a wide variety of activities…

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Crowdfunder: Helping longtime advocate for racial justice realize her dream

Aug 4, 2015, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Keshia Thomas: Keshia’s H.E.A.R.T In 1996 Keshia Thomas was attending a protest against the Ku Klux Klan, a white male with an ‘SS tattoo’ and wearing a Confederate flag t-shirt found himself in the midst of…

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Crowdfunder: Getting mattresses to Philadelphia’s Rescue Mission before Papal Visit

Aug 3, 2015, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Mattresses at Philadelphia’s Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission 180 men call Philadelphia’s Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission home each night. It is for these men that the mission needs 100 new mattresses in their emergency shelter. Hundreds of…

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Crowdfunder: Throwing a summer prom for LGBTQ youth

Jul 30, 2015, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: 11th Annual Out in the City Youth Prom Over the last 10 years, thousands of LGBTQ youth and their friends have attended an amazing Summer Prom in St. Louis hosted by Growing American Youth and held…

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Crowdfunder: Changing the vision of women’s sports in Mexico one frisbee at a time

Jul 29, 2015, 12:35 PM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Juegue con Mala Fama Ultimate México MalaFama is a Mexican women’s ultimate frisbee team. In August, they will celebrate their 5th anniversary and currently hold the national championship title. They are working towards the development of…

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Crowdfunder: Creating diversity among start-up entrepreneurs

Jul 28, 2015, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Funding Diverse Startup Founders The average tech workforce is only 2% black, 1% Hispanic, and 25% women. The data for minority entrepreneurs are just as bad, with less than 2% black and Hispanic entrepreneurs receiving venture…

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Crowdfunder: Sharing via film a journey from undocumented immigrant to successful artist and citizen

Jul 27, 2015, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Prodigal Daughter – A Personal Documentary on Reconciliation A Peruvian-American artist conquers immigration hardship, trauma, and family isolation in this epic story of healing and reconciliation Prodigal Daughter tells the story of a filmmaker’s reconciliation with…

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Crowdfunder: Bringing fresh air to consumers and a fresh start to world’s orphans

Jul 23, 2015, 12:04 PM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Philanthro: Filters 4 Good According to UNICEF, the international orphan crisis affects more than 163,000,000 (163 MILLION) children around the world. They range in age from infants to teenagers, all without a family to meet the…

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Crowdfunder: Racing the seasons to get a roof built for Honduran medical center

Jul 22, 2015, 9:54 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Raise the Roof in Honduras Helping build community-based healthcare in one of the most remote, rural and poor areas of Honduras has been the focus of CHIMES, California Honduras Institute for Medical and Educational Support since…

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Crowdfunder: Preserving the only surviving remnant of Little Spain in NYC

Jul 21, 2015, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Sole Survivor – Única Superviviente History. Art. Spain. America. These are the four essential elements of Sole Survivor, a documentary film that follows the evolution of La Nacional – Spanish Benevolent Society (founded in New York…

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Crowdfunder: Helping students weed out sweatshop conditions in farm fields attend 2015 Encuentro

Jul 20, 2015, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: 2015 Student Farmworker Alliance Encuentro The Student/Farmworker Alliance (SFA) is a national network of students and young people organizing with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to eliminate sweatshop conditions in the fields and build a…

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Crowdfunder: True life story of Chicano rock legend Little Willie G

Jul 16, 2015, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: DREAMING CASUALLY THE MOVIE Dreaming Casually is a biographical drama based on the real life story of Little Willie G, the original voice of Thee Midniters. Willie’s gift as an amazing singer was discovered at an…

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Crowdfunder: Girls Engineering Change

Jul 15, 2015, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Girls Engineering Change The idea is simple: teach young girls how to impact the world through STEM fields by actually letting them do it. Girls Engineering Change (GEC) seeks to close the gender gap in science,…

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Crowdfunder: Shining a spotlight on reforming the criminal justice system

Jul 14, 2015, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: THE RETURN — a film about criminal justice reform After years spent documenting the profound harm caused by the punitive American criminal justice and mass incarceration systems through their previous work, Kelly Duane De la Vega,…

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Crowdfunder: Lifting the shame of mental illness among people of color through photos

Jul 13, 2015, 10:09 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: People of Color and Mental Illness Photo Project For the past 10 months, Dior Vargas has been collecting self-portraits from people of color dealing with mental illness around the country on her website; so far, she…

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Crowdfunder: Saving the ancient treasures of Xochimilco’s canals

Jul 10, 2015, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Aztec Chemistry: Understanding pesticide contamination in Xochimilco, Mexico Xochimilco is world famous for its Mariachi music gondola cruises, and “chinampas“, or ancient Aztec floating agricultural plots. Xochimilco was designated a UNESCO world heritage site in 1987…

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Crowdfunder: Racing against “TIME” to save global biodiversity

Jul 9, 2015, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: This is My Earth A group of environmentalists, scientists and leaders from various countries and continents around the world have spent their lives working to protect nature and the environment on the planet. They are deeply…

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Crowdfunder: Putting Haitian kids on a path to academic success

Jul 8, 2015, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Back to school supplies – Jacmel, Haiti “Education is the single best investment in prosperous, healthy and equitable societies.” – UN Food & Agriculture Organization Since 2005 Restore Haiti has been working with impoverished communities to…

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Crowdfunder: Bracelets to end human trafficking

Jul 7, 2015, 10:47 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Bracelets to End Human Trafficking Slavery still exists in the 21st Century. No country is immune to their young girls and boys falling victim to human trafficking. The Red Thread Movement supports the fight against human…

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Crowdfunded: Providing young, poor Chilean music students a chance to make music in Boston

Jul 6, 2015, 3:55 PM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Help Chilean music students attend festival in USA For 3 years, Natalie Young has been professor of horn at the University of Talca in Talca, Chile. Her final goal before leaving the country is to help…

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Crowdfunder: Computer Education for Nicaraguan Students in Need

Jul 2, 2015, 12:14 PM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Computer Education for Nicaraguan Students in Need The students of Colegio Cristiano Presbiteriano (CCP) in Managua, Nicaragua need computer skills to have any hope of lifting themselves out of poverty. Funds are needed for a computer…

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